NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics show that Dinkinesh is ~0.5 miles (790 m) wide and the binary asteroid is 0.15 ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission Tianwen-2 is scheduled for launch at the end of May, with the Tianwen-2 probe ...

China to launch Tianwen-2 asteroid sampling mission on May 28 China is set to launch its second Tianwen deep space exploration mission late May, targeting both a near Earth asteroid and a main belt ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter.

The constant monitoring of space and everything that happens beyond the Earth's atmosphere has been going on for years. Humans are looking for answers and trying to control the pos ...

BOULDER, Colorado — Asteroid experts are pondering the scientific output from the NASA Lucy spacecraft after it shot by its celestial destination — the main belt asteroid named Donaldjohanson.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has captured its first high-resolution images of an asteroid, revealing a space rock with a surprising shape. Lucy's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager captured asteroid ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space rock.The space agency released the images Monday, a day after the close ...